Benefits Of Using Round Bale Hay Net To Feed Livestock

By Linda Cantrell


Grass, legumes and other herbaceous plants are usually used as animal fodders and are meant for livestock consumption. These fodder crops are harvested and dried to make them suitable for animals. Dried fodder crops make hay that can be fed to animals using feeding nets for different reasons. One of the commonly used feeding net is the round bale hay net, which has a number of advantages to people who use it to feed their animals.

Using these structures actually guarantees continuous supply of fodder for your livestock at all time. At times, when the weather conditions are hostile, fodder is usually scarce and one needs to manage the use of the available hay wisely. This may be done with the use of feeding nets that control wastage and rate at which your animals feed thus prolonging the hay longevity.

Use of this structure to feed your livestock ensures that you minimize wastage of hay. Animals that feed without these items are likely to waste much hay. The wastage occurs from the animals stomping on the hay, sleeping on it, pulling it apart as well as hay being blown away in the wind. In the case where feeding is done on nets, wastage occurring from these ways is controlled.

Nets feeding will help maximize the duration in which your animals consume hay. This ensures that each bale would last longer than usual as these structures are used to control the amount if fodder an animal grabs each time. Some type of hay such as those made from rye grass are sweeter compared to normal grass and animals will tend to consume it fast. The bale of rye grass would probably last for shorter duration than that of normal grass. To ensure that livestock consume these palatable hay at normal rate, feeding nets can be used because animals would always grab small amounts each time.

When your livestock are feeding, chances of developing health defects such as stomach ulcers are high. Some would tend to develop boredom vices when feeding. This feeding structure tends to ensure that your animals are not exposed to those health defects and boredom vices. Since your animals cannot grab huge amount of hay when feeding from this structure, chances of choke to them are minimal.

Some of your animals may be greedy such that they feed fast. The facility is good as it controls the feeding rate of these greedy and overweight animals. Underweight livestock are as well catered for as they are ensured constant supply of hay. As they grab feed from the net, they are subjected to a natural feeding environment of practicing grazing habits.

This feeding method also reduces amount of labour required to feed the livestock. Bearing in mind that the fodder put in net would last long due to controlled consumption rate and wastage of fodder, one needs not to put bales frequently. The time interval between when one puts fodder in net and when he or she needs to do it again is great. This helps reduce amount of labour required to feed your livestock.

At other times, the fodder that the livestock feeds need to be controlled especially when they are experiencing health defects or at some certain weather conditions. At cold weather conditions, livestock requires more of fibre feed therefore the need for controlled feeding of the animals. This can be achieved by use of these bale hay nets that actually are best for controlled feeding habits.




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